ALEX Lesson Plans

Title: I Owe, I Owe, So Off to Work I Go!
Calculating College Cost Repayment, Budgeting, and Finding Loan Forgiveness Sources
Description:
Students often attend college and are faced with the mounting debt incurred from student loans. This lesson plan will guide through calculating repayment for students loans, preparing a monthly budget, and researching options for possible loan forgiveness.
This lesson plan contains a financial aid component.
Standard(s): [CTE] CT6 (9-12) 5: Determine factors that affect money management, including career choice, education, skills, and economic conditions.

Title: What's The Real Cost of That Car?
Description:
This is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson plan. A project requiring research, critical thinking and complex decision-making about factoring all the costs of purchasing a large ticket item... a car.
Standard(s): [MA2013] DM1 (9-12) 9: Determine a minimum project time using algorithms to schedule tasks in order, including critical path analysis, the list-processing algorithm, and student-created algorithms. (Alabama)

Subject: Business, Management, and Administration (9 - 12), or Mathematics (9 - 12) Title: What's The Real Cost of That Car?Description: This is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson plan. A project requiring research, critical thinking and complex decision-making about factoring all the costs of purchasing a large ticket item... a car.